I personally don't gig with my Tyros. It seems far too delicate and the keyboard action and response is only just about ok for me. I still gig with either of 2 Studiologic semi weighted keyboards with a Ketron XD3.

However, It's not just about keyboard action for me because I know that if I only ever play the Tyros (or a 3000, 2000 etc) I would get used to it.

One of the things I am really really bad at is remembering words to the songs I play. Sure I can rememember all of the words to some of the songs and some of the words to all of the songs. I could of course practice more and perhaps I should but I really enjoy having a very big repertoire and for some reason I can always remember the melody and chord side of things but not the lyrics.

On the XD3 you can have individual registration files on disk that load instantaneously, and I save these as individual song titles. If you also save a text file with the same name (just a different extension) then the words also load automatically at the same time as the registration. This is absolutely invaluable to me with my lame memory

Although the Tyros shows Lyrics these are just for midi or karaoke files. I'm not interested in using Midi files but it may be possible to somehow create midi/karaoke files with lyrics but no music. However, I still havent the control of which words are on the screen at any one time and they don't load automatically.

I have gone into detail above really to show that the size/ weight and lyric display are perhaps the most important for live performance considerations for me. Good voices, Rythmns and styles, acceptable on board VH, navigation and control are all important as well but some are more so than others to each of us.

Like many have said before - whatever is best for each person's varies according to their individual requirements. Having said that, I'm not sure that everyone is sure what these are until they have bought the wrong thing a few times - lol

KFingers